Does adding an account in Active Directory automatically create an Exchange mailbox? Do you have to be on the server where Exchange is running, or can you create an account/mailbox from any server on the network?

How do you back up Exchange? How do you restore it?

Odds are if they dont know the answer to these questions, they should not be in charge of administering your e-mail system.

Tess3425 wrote:

I will be interviewing some people & was looking for some good ( Basic- Mid level) exchange 2003 questions... Anything will help

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First, do they understand the basics.

Do they know what a public store is?

A Private Store?

Can you move stores to a different drive? How?

Do they know the difference between SMTP and POP?

Does adding an account in Active Directory automatically create an Exchange mailbox? Do you have to be on the server where Exchange is running, or can you create an account/mailbox from any server on the network?

How do you back up Exchange? How do you restore it?

Odds are if they dont know the answer to these questions, they should not be in charge of administering your e-mail system.

Tess3425 wrote:

I will be interviewing some people & was looking for some good ( Basic- Mid level) exchange 2003 questions... Anything will help

If it were my hire, I would do a bit of questioning to determine whether or not their resume is stuffed or if they actually have had hands-on experience. Surprising how many people may have used a managed Exchange solution and yet claim experience. Things like:

Describe experience in depth with restoring a corrupted database. If they don't start talking about the eseutil, isinteg and other related utils, they may be faking.

Their opinion on effective spam control - someone with experience should have an opinion about a tool or which blacklists to use, etc.

Experiences restoring a mail/mailbox. If they've never restored an accidentally deleted mail, I gotta question how long they've been in front of the console.

Their experiences with upgrading Exchange. Exchange isn't a "normal" upgrade and usually requires creating a new server, adding it to the farm, migrating users and removing the old, etc. Fakers may just figure it's an in-place upgrade like anything else.

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